Why Doesn’t the FDA Regulate Tattoo Ink?
Are there serious adverse effects to injecting industrial paint under your skin? Nobody really knows. The inks used are not FDA-approved.
Can the Acorn Crop Predict Lyme Disease?
Will cutting fewer forests, where tick hosts and their predators live, help curb Lyme disease? Scientists debate.
Facing Ourselves Online
The photographic pressure to curate our faces is inextricable from the online pressure to curate our lives; to present and perform.
When Packrats’ Hoards Are Helpful
Packrat nests, preserved by a combination of the chemistry of urine and the desert air, open a window into centuries of local climate change.
Plastic in Your Beer, Toxins in Your Air, and Heavy Metals on Your Doorsteps
From household plastic to industrial waste, anthropogenic activity has created compounds that poison ecosystems from water to air.
When the Sea Recedes
When caused by storms, receding oceans are result of an inverted storm surge, a “negative surge.” Storm surges have a few causes.
Fire Ants Form Rafts to Float on Water
Floating masses of fire ants have been observed drifting in the floodwaters resulting from Hurricane Harvey. How does a swarm of fire ants float?
Hurricanes May be Getting More Severe: Do We Need a Whole New Cateogry to Describe Them?
There’s been a devastating trail of destruction and flooding along the east Atlantic coast in the last few ...
How To Recycle Half A Million Flooded Cars
Although a car seems like a long-term capital investment, it is only a crash or disaster away from becoming two tons of mass-consumer junk.
Using DNA As a Memory Drive
Scientists have successfully encoded a simple movie in bacteria DNA, and played it back. Using DNA for data storage is not as crazy as it sounds...